Learning objective

  • To tinker with a new piece of software.

Success criteria

  • I can predict what I think something new

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National curriculum

Computing

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Design,

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Before starting this unit you might want to check children can recall: To use past experiences to help solve new problems. To use decomposition to understand the purpose of a script of code. To use decomposition to help solve problems.  

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Should use the basic command sheet provided to help support spelling and syntax.

Pupils working at greater depth

Could discuss what they think would happen if they put another loop between ‘do’ and the ‘end’ after they have used one loop; should try this (tinker) and reflect on what happened.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: iterating, testing and changing ideas; explaining

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Vocabulary definitions

  • code

    A set of instructions written in programming language to tell a computer what to do.

  • command

    An instruction.

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